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Sports journalists' frenetic pace and round-the-clock deadlines are more conducive to the web than to print.

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Sports journalists have tended to value their readers more highly — a key attitude in adapting to the two-way nature of online news.

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The web was practically tailor-made for the way fans want to consume information about sports.

This reason was only hinted at by Brown-Smith and Groves, but I think it's key to determining why sports departments' online innovations are so much more substantive and successful. There is no other type of news that is as social as sports, and none for which the audience's appetite is as ravenous. No other area even comes close; politics is a pretty distant second.

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Those are the factors we've come up with - if you have any theories of your own, I'd love to hear them in the comments.

Nice post, Mark. I think you’ve hit on a lot of the main reasons why sports departments may be ahead of other newspaper departments in adapting to online. And you nailed the paradox that the sports department may be a place where some hardcore curmudgeons dwell, but on the whole, the product is often more innovative than other parts of the newspaper.

A few thoughts:

— Aside from the “toy department” reputation, I think another important factor is simply that most top honchos are home by the time the bulk of the sports content rolls in. Just on that alone, it’s often easier to avoid the gauntlet of upper management before getting something done. That breeds a much stronger “ask for forgiveness rather than permission” attitude in sports departments, which might in turn attract people who like to experiment to the sports department.

— While the “toy department” rep helps make it easier for sports departments to experiment, I fear it also makes it harder to reproduce that level of experimentation in other areas of the news organization. It’s much harder to convince management to remain as hands off for “serious” news, and when you say, “Well, this worked for sports,” it’s always shot down with, “Yeah, but that’s just sports.”

— One small quibble with Jay’s statement about the knowledge gap between the sports reporter and the sports fan not being as wide: I think it’s definitely an accurate assessment when it comes to on-the-field action for the local teams. However, I see two areas where the journalist could have significantly more knowledge than the average fan:

1) Non-local teams. Just from personal experience, I definitely knew a lot more about every field of sports, and more about non-local teams in each sport when I was getting paid to follow sports 8 hours a day than now, when I’m just an average fan. That’s only natural. It really is amazing to compare now and then and realize how much more immersed in sports I was when I worked in a sports department.

2) Knowledge of off-the-field stuff about the team/program. You’re right that most of the postgame locker room quotes are garbage, but beyond that, the good beat writers I’ve worked with really do learn much more about their team than the average fan would know. Some of that is from being around the team so much (not just for games, but also for daily practice and in the off-season), some of it is from finding and talking to sources, and some of it is just from persistent leg work.

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Tons of data and statistics make for a wide array of database and data visualization opportunities, both during the game and in analysis.

The popularity of a sporting event online in social media also works as a feedback loop for its appeal in old media. The NFL is enjoying a resurgence of popularity on the old-fashioned broadcast networks. In broadcasting they call it tent poles…having major events one week apart the act as focal points to stimulate ongoing audience-generated interest in the interim.

Politics may be far behind sports, generally speaking, but the same tent pole structure worked during Campaign 2008 with the primaries-conventions-debates acting as the tent poles and blogs-Facebook acting as the interim interactive media. The old-fashioned broadcast audiences for the debates and for election night were similarly huge.

In entertainment TV, American Idol has been distinctive for new media audience interaction sustaining interest between tent pole primetime broadcasts.

What all these events have in common is that they are contests — sporting, political, or show business. I wonder who is going to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

Mark, great post. I agree with your point about the social nature of sports; I believe that’s one reason it remains a “live” draw for broadcast. People still want to watch those types of events in real-time (a contributing factor to the popularity of “American Idol” and “Dancing With the Stars” as well) because they want to keep up with what everyone’s talking about.

One of the sports bloggers I talked with noted the psychological nature of his blog. When the college team he covered lost, fans would flock to his site to vent and unload. He said he quickly learned to listen and say little, responding with the online equivalent of a psychological nod.

The challenge for news organizations is generating that level of enthusiasm and passion for coverage of less sexy topics, such as city ordinances, zoning issues, and the latest sales-tax proposal from the parks department. I’m not sure the long tail of those institutional issues will spark enough interest (and revenue) to create a sustaining model. Perhaps the sports department could become the engine that subsidizes the smaller but no less important news niches.

Thanks for the post, Mark, and for collecting some of the online conversation here – I left town on Friday and was actually off-the-grid most of the weekend so I would have missed some of it otherwise.

Definitely agree with you about the social nature of sports and I’m particularly intrigued by Andrew Tyndall’s comment about the tent poles, a concept I wasn’t familiar with but makes a lot of sense. Is there any way to harness that concept to make “more serious” news more compelling and social?